State v. Siemion

The state appeals from an order of dismissal entered after appropriate motion was made at the close of the state’s evidence.

The sole issue is whether the state introduced sufficient evidence to submit to the jury the question of respondent’s guilt of second-degree arson.

By a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, respondent admits its truth, and all inferences that reasonably can be drawn from it. He also requires us to interpret the evidence in the light most prejudicial to him and most favorable to the state. State v. Coy, 40 Wn. (2d) 112, 114, 241 P. (2d) 205 (1952).

Respondent had…